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JOURNAL 2010 Friday, January 01, 2010 5:27 PM Finally, I got this stupid MS Word to allow macros to run. My new year’s resolution is to get back to working on my book, Be God. Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:31 PM Mission Statement: I am looking for an opportunity with an organization that will enable me to utilize myself skills of engagement and persuasion to promote healthier lifestyles and ways of thinking and/or to confront unhealthy lifestyles and ways of thinking. One such unhealthy way of thinking is conservatism. I do not want to challenge conservatives; I want to confront conservatism as an unhealthy way of thinking. I recognize that conservatism is unhealthy for the individual and unhealthy for society at large. Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:19 AM Mark,(from StudyCircle) You have some very good points in your argument chain here. I particularly like your question a few posts back, "furthermore, how can any answer to this question actually be useful?" This was a question I kept looking at until I got the answers. I wanted to know how all these ideas or ways of thinking were going to effect and affect the quality of my life experience NOW, not some time in the future. I can point at some of what I have found but I would encourage you to "seek that you may find" as I have found.
So the absence of fear is why I choose to AT TIMES see myself as God/Spirit, but to bring passion and vitality to my life I AT TIMES choose to see myself as an individual person who has something to gain or lose in life. BOTH have their value. Monday, August 02, 2010 9:58 AM Mental relaxation techniques are similar to physical relaxations techniques in that both require that we stress ourselves and then let go which well make us more relaxed then before we started. The yoga we know in the west is mostly about physical relaxation where we stretch out (stress our muscles) as far as we can without doing physical damage and hold it as long as we can, then let go and relax. After doing this we find that we are more relaxed then before we started. You can do the same thing by just tensing up our muscle and holding it until you feel exhausted and then letting go, which relaxes them more than if you did nothing. With the nerves we cannot easily stretch them out but we can stress them in a way that causes them to contract and tense up. If you remember your high school biology class where you dissect a frog and at some point we then ‘shocked’ the frog’s leg which caused it to contract as if the frog was still alive and controlling it’s leg. When we send a lot of energy down a nerve we are doing the same thing, it contracts. To do this we focus our attention on a thought that we have resistance to; something we are saying “No” to in some form or other. By going fully into that no-ness or resistance we are creating tension in our mind/nerves and the muscles that are connected to them. For instance, I used to have a hard time with the idea of fundamentalist religious people preaching their doctrine of hell fire and damnation to people, creating fear in those gullible enough to believe it. I was saying a big NO to this idea or thought (it is only a thought like almost everything else). So I would go off to a lonely place and fully feel the pain of my resistance around this thought until I would actually contract my whole body, every muscle in it, and contract my mind by thinking nothing but NO toward this thought or idea. I would hold that position until every part of my being would become exhausted and my will was broken and then the human instrument would let go and relax. I worded that last part particularly because “I” would not relax, I was not choosing to relax, that option was no longer available to Jim Freedom, his body/mind just gave out and relaxation was the result. After doing this exercise I found complete release from the pain of my negativity around this thought or idea. Frustration, no-ness, mental masturbation with philosophies & theologies all have their place if one takes them to their extreme, they will take you to a place where you can’t hold on to them anymore and letting go will happen. The result of this process is you become as innocent like a child and you enter the kingdom of heaven (to paraphrase Jesus here). In the letting go or relaxing we will find inner peace, contentment and with it, clarity. It is in this clarity that we can see the truth behind what we were not able to see when we were making whatever it was we were resisting so important. Making something important is of course valuable but also having the ability to let it go and NOT make it important is as valuable. Like breathing in and breathing out, both are required for a healthy, whole life. I would call this the fast way of passion and peace, but it is of course, not the only method of relaxing the nerves of the human instrument. Mysticism is much slower but more gentle and both are valuable tools to have in your spiritual tool box. I could write a book on this and probably should because more
than this is not appropriate in this forum. Wednesday, August 11, 2010 6:16 PM Rebecca, Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:46 PM One, Jesus’ ‘world view’ included seeing it as heavenly (the kingdom of heaven is AT HAND), but Paul did not see that. I would agree that Paul might have had a little holier perspective on the rest of that religious stuff in paragraph 2. Faith: Jesus taught that we should first clean the inside of the cup and the outside would take care of itself, meaning that first seek the truth that will set us free and all that other stuff will take care of itself. Paul did not do that. Period. He neither entered the kingdom of heaven nor did he allow others to by his faithless teachings. Paul was a PERFECT example of the Pharisee hypocrite, blind guide. (The other apostles did a pretty good job of being blind guides too.) Paul focused in on faith, Jesus focused in on blessedness (which enables one to see the truth that sets them free). Jesus did not believe in original sin and did think that we could overcome the IDEA of sin. “Be perfect as God is perfect.” Paul would say that nobody can be perfect but that at best we can strive to BECOME perfect. Paul was CLUELESS about repenting or metanoia. It is the stupid idea of the Abrahamic traditions that we have “fallen” and are ALL sinful. Jesus obviously did not buy that and said that anybody can get rid of that stupid idea by just believing they were perfect NOW and having no doubt in their heart. Sin (separation from God) is a stupid idea and Jesus was trying to talk people out of it. Jesus: God does not demand sacrifice but mercy. Paul: God demands sacrifice. I don’t know who wrote any of the bible and I don’t care. Paul is attributed to writing most of the NT so that is what I deal with; fact, not belief. Anybody who follows Paul’s teaching becomes a conservative; they conserve their love for others because they see this world as evil and people as sinner. People who follow Jesus’ teachings and his way end up being liberals; they are generous and broadminded with their love seeing people as inherently good. Do you see the MAJOR difference between these two attitudes? Justifying Paul’s teachings is justifying this sick attitude that all the Abrahamic traditions have and that Jesus was trying to reform. We are all one, we are all part of God; that was Jesus’ message, not Paul’s. Paul wanted to create a SEPARATE church and did not see all humanity as his church. What was most important in most of his teachings was to keep the church together. Anyone who was divisive was to be shunned. Jesus came not to bring peace on earth but division, to set family members against one another. These two ideas are mutually exclusive. Jesus saw something that Paul did not bother to even look at. Any who seeks will find but Paul did not seek so he did not find. If Paul or the other apostles had bother to seek to know God the way Jesus knew God they would have found it and they would not have been Christians…they would have been Christs. Sunday, August 22, 2010 9:52 AM In my opinion Jesus was "bearing witness to the
truth" of how religious people were so programmed to respond to words in
ways that was not healthy to them by just speaking outside of the boxes they
were taught to fear. Jesus talked about things that others were afraid to talk
about, like that we are all gods part of If people were honest with themselves they would admit that
they don't like having their buttons pushed, not even subtly as society always
is doing. So why not take the time to develop the same kind of control we have
over our bowels and bladder to learn to control our emotional responses to
word, thoughts and ideas? Jesus and I and many more have done this so why not
everyone. Hundreds of years ago most people could not read but today most
people can read because we took the time to learn to read, and look at the
benefit. So why not do the same with learning out to control our mind and
emotions? Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:36 PM I could be reading this into Jesus' teachings or just using
his words to justify my own observations, but it does seem that Jesus
recognized that words are used to enslave people and that it was possible to
get free of this. For instance, in Matt 11:6 Jesus said, " blessed
is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Obviously, no one
likes to be offended and Jesus was VERY offensive. Blessedness was the
theme of his Sermon on the Mound so I would say that was something that he
considered as important. Second, in John 16:33 Jesus said, "These
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye
shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the
world." If he could overcome the world then anybody can. And
third, " for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness
unto the truth." And what was obvious to me was that it was true
that those religious people he was talking to were greatly offended by him and
his words, he proved he could piss them off or upset them. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:09 AM Jill, I would not recommend you concern yourself with personality types. Instead I would suggest you look to the sameness of all personalities, all people, and even all beings to find what is common or the essence of being. Or, to use your phrase, if God is everything then look to find God that is in everything. When you look to differences you are dividing and by dividing you will not find the Whole or the holy. By looking for that which is common or the same in all things then you will be looking at the whole and moving in a holy direction. Personally, I traveled the world over studying different spiritual traditions. In that quest I looked to find what was common among those traditions, what were they all trying to offer, what was the same about them? I found four spiritual qualities that all spiritual traditions encouraged people to develop. As you rightly pointed out the more you focus in on differences they more differences you will find; there is not just nine personality types and not just hundreds but BILLIONS of personality types, one for each of us. OR you can go in the other direction and find OUR personality type, the one personality type that reflects all of us. When I did this I got to the question of what is the point of evolving or changing. I asked myself (part of that All personality type) what I wanted, not what Jim Freedom wanted that was different from anyone else, but what I wanted that was the same with everyone else. I even included all sentient beings in that all, not just humans. And by continuing to seek I got the resolution, which sometimes turns up in answers, which I was seeking. Jill, what are you looking for? What are you looking for that is the same with all beings everywhere? There is an essence or sameness or commonality that we all have that is beyond our differences, whether those differences be personality, place, time, station in life, or whatever. Those answers are within you if you will take the time to look there. Friday, October 01, 2010 11:47 AM "Throughout the Bible, obedience is a far more important virtue than kindness or wisdom or love." Obedience to WHAT? Obedience to the scripture, obviously not for the scriptures are constantly being changed. I would say it is obedience to our 'conscience' or the 'still small voice within' as the bible calls it. Scriptures demonstrate that our conscience evolves and hence we reject the far reaching spiritual dictates of ancient scriptures, because we have evolved to a much higher consciousness than existed in those primitive times...at least most of us have. Those of us who have evolved spiritually our job is to help
those who haven't evolved yet. And by
questioning their limiting beliefs, we are doing just that. Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:22 AM Sin, the illusion of separation; separation from God,
separation for other people, separation from any life form. Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:01 AM A Christ vs. A Saint I would like to compare models or archetypes of personalities that could be labeled as a christ and as a saint. I use the term christ because I cannot find a better term to describe this type of personality. And because my word processing software automatically capitalizes Christ I am going to leave it that way, although I am NOT referring to the person of Jesus when I use the term Christ, I am referring to the archetype or model that Jesus was a good example of. And just as there was The Buddha whose name was Siddhartha, people think of The Christ as Jesus, but Buddha and Christ are really just titles given to people and Siddhartha and Jesus were the prototype of these models of personalities. And as we will see these are prototypes of personalities that a large part of society does NOT want to see replicated into society, so they will resist the idea that anyone can be a Christ or a Buddha. Let me first start by describing what I would call the less or lower of the two models; the saint. A saint is a person who makes themselves very lovable to society. Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a very good modern example of a saint and she was loved by the world when she died. Mother Teresa spent her life comforting people in their misery and suffering. Mother Teresa submitted to her religious superiors and dedicated her life to service of her Church and to the suffering people of the world. She was an example of the type of person the world’s religions wanted people to be. She was a “good” person. A saint is a person who spends their life comforting or enabling people’s suffering. I say enabling because she did not confront the cause of the suffering, she ignored the aspects of the culture that created the suffering the first place and just comforted those who were suffering the most because of those unhealthy aspects of the culture. A Christ on the other had is a person who seeks to change unhealthy aspects of the culture that CAUSE suffering and misery in the first place. As Siddhartha pointed out 2500 years ago, suffering is a product of our ways of thinking, not a product of our economic situation or our social status. And as Jesus added 500 years later, we will always have poor people but we don’t always have to have people suffering and in misery. A Christ looks at WHY people are suffering and tries to change the culture of society away from the unhealthy practices that creates that suffering. In Jesus’ time and in the culture that he lived in guilt was a big problem for people; many lived their whole lives feeling guilt for some ‘sin’ they believed they had. So Jesus addressed this problem and today the Christian world lives a lot freer from guilt than their Jewish parent culture does. But the model of a Christ is one that seeks to change the culture and there are many people within the current culture who benefit from the suffering of others and they do not want to see the culture changed. Hence you see the high level of social resistance to a Christ while you see almost no social resistance to the work of a saint. When Jesus died he was hated by the ruling classes, both religious and governmental, and he was hated by those within the structure who were comfortable and gained advantage because of the structure. The model of a doctor in western medicine is closer to the saint model than the Christ model. Western doctors are there to help people get healthy AFTER they have3 lost that health. Western doctors make their living off the sick people. Eastern doctors tend to follow the model of Christ, working to prevent dis-ease in the first place. Eastern doctors make their money when their clients are healthy. The etymology for the word doctor shows that it means “to teach”, which is all but lost on western doctors and saints, but is the model for Christs and eastern doctors. A prophet is a messenger from God. In the primitive mindset, God is a person separate from humanity. In the more evolved mindset, God is an objective, a goal of goodness and health to be reached for. So a modern version of a prophet might be any person who strives to teach people healthier ways of thinking and living. Jesus was such a prophet, but his vision of his role
included confronting existing ideas and aspects of culture that were either
intentionally or by default unhealthy and not fulfilling for people. A saint is not about confronting
unhealthy/unholy aspects of society. Friday, October 08, 2010 4:47 PM Government The difference between governments and other organizations is that governments have the right to use force to accomplish their missions. Now forced sex is called rape and forced labor is called slavery. Both rape and slavery are seen as evil. It is not sex or labor that is evil but the element of force that makes it evil. So government is evil and if you support government you are supporting evil. Some will say that government is a necessary evil. That means they believe that humanity cannot exist without a foundation of force and violence. But, if you were to actually look around you and your life you would have to admit that in your world force is NOT needed; force is always for the OTHER guys. So we want government to control the OTHER guys. Now does that sound like an attitude that comes from the Golden Rule; do unto others as you would want them to do unto you? No! Yet, all the laws of the world are based on the idea of the Golden Rule. Personally, I choose not to support evil, just as I don't
support rape or slavery or torture, I also don't support government. But I have faith that sooner or later
humanity will outgrow the need for mommy government and daddy God. Saturday, October 09, 2010 9:54 AM We HAVE a rational, balanced system. It is perfectly balanced between the forces that exist today, those that want more control and those that want less. We ALWAYS have a perfectly balanced system. What I want to do is shift the attitude of people away from the desire to control OTHERS through the use of force. I recognize that we need to control others because we cannot control ourselves. So I teach self mastery. Being a master over myself I feel no need to control the behaviors of others and hence no need for any form of institutionalized force, be it government or other forms of terrorism. AND, I recognize that I am in a very small minority so I don’t think that the world should change to fit what I want it to fit. If people want government (and the war that it is) then that is ok with me, I just choose not to participate. I agree with you in that I recognize that education is the way, but I go further and say that force is NOT the way. You believe in Science, and for you that is your ultimate authority, your God. Great, I can probably say that is true for me too. But there are many others out there that I care about who don’t agree with us. If I love them would I want them to be forced to agree with me? FUCK NO! So when you bring the element of love or compassion or caring into the equation you will sooner or later realize that government is NOT the way towards a healthy society. The way to ‘fix’ our health care system is to teach people how to BE healthy in the first place so that they will not feel any need for doctors or drugs or hospitals. Hospitals and doctors and pharmaceutical companies all want us to be sick so that they can make money off of us. So they use governments to institute unhealthy practices to create a sense of dependence on them for our ‘health’. Education is the solution, not force based systems. Voting is a system to see who is best at conning the gullible masses the best. When the people are no longer gullible they will feel no need to participate in government or voting. You are definitely an idealist and not a realist; you have your head in the sky and your feet a long way off the ground. I understand that, I was there before. But if you were to truly look at your ideals you would see that they will not work and you really don’t even want them to work. What we have now IS working perfectly, for what we are able to handle at this time. The goal, as I see it, is to change our ability to handle what life is offering so that we will not need to force ourselves or others to do what we want to be done. As I think Gandhi said, if you want to change the world then become the change you want to see. First change yourself then you will be able to change others. Monday, October 11, 2010 12:55 PM In the beginning was the idea that there was separation
within the Unified Field of Consciousness. Before the idea of separation came
into being there was no beginning and no end, there just was Consciousness. But
without the illusion of separation there could be no drama to enjoy and love,
and there could be no joy and love, so imagination happened and "we"
came into being and that "we" Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:37 PM Humility I like to say to myself, nothing that ever has happened or
could happen on this puny speck of dust in the universe that we call Earth that
could ever be Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:04 AM Honesty Getting free to love what life has to offer takes a radical sense of personal honesty, honest with ourselves first and with the world secondly. But society has encourages us and we now have very deeply engrained habits of being dishonest with ourselves and with the world. Until a person can see this and can see how that dishonesty is hurting them and keeping them trapped in a vicious cycle of self abuse they will continue this unhealthy habit. As children we are taught to believe that others are responsible for our emotional reactions. It is just part of the culture, there is no one to blame for that, not even ourselves. But now that we are aware of how unhealthy this habit is we do have a choice to either continue with this unhealthy habit and perpetuate the cycle of suffering or we can choose to change our ways of thinking and our habitual reactions to those thoughts. Guilt One reason I see that people do not want to be honest with themselves is because they fear their own habitual reaction of guilt. They habitually and automatically think, “If I am responsible for my own emotional reactions to what people say to me then I am guilty of abusing myself emotionally all these years. The thought of this guilt is so overwhelming that they cannot accept the premise that they are responsible for their own emotional behavior. But this guilt itself is just another automatic, habitual or programmed self abusive behavior and it just keeps the cycle going. Trying to place or find blame for our cultural conditioning only further entraps us in the cycle of self abusive behavior. Just recognizing that it is there is enough and then finding a way to move on. I have found that the best way to deal with the cycle of self deception is to just laugh at myself and my automatic reactions. The process of laughing itself relieves the tension and relaxes me thereby breaking the cycle. Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:47 AM Book Structure What we want: to appreciate, enjoy and love all that life has to offer. With love there is a deep felt awareness of our oneness with all living beings so love will eventually include a desire to serve and help all living being be able to appreciate, enjoy and love all that life has to offer. This love will manifest as respect for our self, all living beings and the planet itself. What we have: we think of ourselves as separate from one another and separate from life itself which produces fear, greed, doubt and animosity. We are told and we believe in many requirements that we are suppose to be seeking after (righteousness, money, material things, power, domination, popularity, etc.) and we forget why we want these things. We have a failure to communicate and work together because of our unconscious habits of reacting with programmed behaviors to attempts to communicate. We have aspects of our culture that have forgotten our true objective so they institute distractions and intentions that want to keep us from serving our true objectives. Meditation in Conversation: developing the skills of first listening without the need to react, but a willingness to allow and even encourage one another to fully express themselves while we practice the skills of appreciation, joy and love. When we are confident in our skills of remembering our true objective of loving what life has to offer and helping others remember that true objective, then we are ready to speak and share how we do what we do. Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:19 AM What is love? When I wanted to understand what love was I first sought what others said about it, and found NO answer there. Then I found that someone said, "Where there is fear let me sow love." Another said, "Love drives out fear." So I assumed that love and fear are opposites. Then I watched myself and noticed that when I was in fear I was contracted down and hard. I became that way as a result of a thought about the future and a habitual reactions of contraction. I concluded that if love is the opposite of this then when I have a thought that cause my body and mind to relax and expand (or embrace) something then I am probably experiencing love. I also noticed that I don't like the experience of fear but I like the experience of love, so I am attracted to it. This attraction is an affinity and/or yearning. Love is not a restful state but it is an attractive state. Love is very rich. I also notice that the deeper I go into this feeling of love
the more intense the feeling of separation is, and the more attractive the
feeling is. Saturday, October 16, 2010 11:55 AM Religion is the institutional pay on the insecurities of humanity. Relationships die. Love lives on. Why do some romantic relationships end but continue on as
friends and others end up as just bitter enemies? If there was no love during the relationship
then there will be no love after the relationship. Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:56 AM I AM GOD I love life and all that it has to offer. Nothing is impossible to me. I love judgment and criticism. I love to judge and be judged. Judgment cannot hurt me it can only awaken me should I fall asleep. I love to push buttons and I love to have people try to push my buttons. If I react with less than love then I am asleep and it is only an opportunity to wake up, or, I can choose to stay asleep. The worldly will tell me I am not God. I only smile, for their darkness has no power over me. I have overcome the world and its ability to darken my light. And I love the worldly as they try to bring their darkness upon. I can choose to stay in the darkness and sleep or I can wake up to the light. If I submit to darkness it only means it is time for me to sleep. Does God sleep? God does EVERYTHING for everything is God. God is in everything and everything is in God. There is only one, separation is only an illusion. Does God change? God changes and does not change. God is inclusive of change and is outside of change. Why be God? God is love and God loves. Who does not want to love all that life has to offer? Who does not want to enjoy all that life has to offer? Yes, there are those who are too afraid to love all, so their fear will dictate to them that they do not want to be God, to be love and to love. They are just those who are still in the darkness and asleep. As the light starts to shine on them they will start to awaken and want to be awakened. As those of us who have awaken to who we really are start to shine our light then those in the darkness, those who are asleep will start to yearn for the more light and to be the light. We can all be the light of the world. We can all be God. To the awakened there are no limits, all is
possible. Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:11 PM Courage is the manifestation of love (God). Jesus demonstrated that courage in his willingness to question the authority of the scriptures and the religious authorities of his time. Jesus demonstrated that courage when all the others did not, and they looked upon him as some kind of god because of it. I wanted that courage to be able to look at the source of
societies sickness and confront it. So I
sought and I found that courage (love/God).
Now I confront the source of the sickness of the society I see around
me. All that sickness comes in the
belief of our separation from one another and from Spirit/God. And that is why I use Jesus since he saw the
same thing I have. Monday, October 18, 2010 2:03 PM Overcoming Hurtful Words Master Over Words I see that society trains us to be slaves to words so that they can manipulate us with words, both positively and negatively. And then push our button to control our behavior to get us to perform in a way that suits them. I am really glad that I took the time to practice getting free from this form of slavery. This is the one of the greatest gift I have ever given myself. Wouldn’t it be a good thing if people had power over whether they reacted to something somebody said to them or not. For instance, would it not be good if somebody said something to you that was encouraging or uplifting you could choose to react and feel encourage or uplifted. And if somebody said something that was discouraging or depressing and you could choose to not react to that and not become discouraged or depressed. Would that not be a good thing for people to have that power or option within themselves? Power Over Words Emotional Self Mastery: Overcoming the world’s ability to push your buttons. I have overcome the world’s ability to intimidate me and I want to inspire other people to get free from their slavery to words. Dr. Joe Dispenza, DC Chiropractic, Life University. From “What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole”. The person who has the ability to hold a thought and to hold an idea and to hold a vision in spite of the feedback of the body is executing the movement to a greater reality.” Our bodies WILL react to what it said, but if we can hold on to the truth that no words can harm us, only our reactions can cause us harm, then we will overcome that unhealthy fear of words and the unhealthy fear of ourselves and our habitual reactions to what life is offering. My thought, ideal or vision is this, “Words, thoughts and ideas cannot hurt me; only my reactions to the words, thoughts or ideas can do me harm.” It is a fact that sounds not loudly broadcast cannot hurt us. So words cannot hurt us. BUT, we have been deeply programmed to react to words and that programming can and is used to control and manipulate us. Yet, with intent, determination and practice we can re-program ourselves to not react to the same words or stimuli, we can get from this cycle of abuse. If we seek we will find. I love this world we live in. It is such a PERFECT world. I cannot believe just how perfect this world is. At times I cannot imagine that life can get better than this, but sure enough it does get better. Yet, often I look around and see that others cannot see or experience this perfect world and they feel trapped in their suffering, which saddens me. But then I wake up and realize that I love waking people up and without them this world would not be perfect. Ah, how perfect this world is. Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:52 AM Why Get Free? If we continue to do what we have always done we will get
what we have always gotten. If life sucks in some or any form and we don’t care
enough about ourselves to even look at why then we will live a life that
sucks. But if we care enough to seek a
way out of that sucky life then we will find that way and we will not have to
live a sucky life. But people believe that we can’t get out, that this is the way life is, then we will just die inside and stop caring, even about ourselves. Yet, most people do believe that if they make small changes in their life that we can have small incremental improvement in the quality of our life experience. So why not just keep making those small changes until life is perfect? Overcoming the World: and it ability to push our buttons STOP: Your buttons from be pushed. Power Relating Relationship Power Power Over Words Words have no power over me unless I choose to give them power. Words cannot harm me unless I give them power to harm me. I am the one who defines the meaning of words; I can choose this or that meaning or choose no meaning at all. Others can tell me that words have this power or that meaning but I am the one who has to choose to believe them. Therefore, I am the one with the power. I take that power by remembering that I am the one with the power and I take that power by practicing relaxing and not reacting to words that offer me no light. With practice I always have a choice. But old habits die hard and they enslave me. I still feel the power of my habitual reactions to words. They intimidate me, they discourage me, and they sadden me. But I will not let them overcome me. I choose to be the one with the power, the one with choice. I am the God of my reality; I am the God that defines my inner experience. I choose to be that God. I choose to be the one who creates the quality of my life experience. I choose joy and love over the fear, doubt, and pessimism that the world seems to want me to have. I choose light, and I have overcome the world’s ability to push my buttons and control or limit the quality of my life experience. Words have no power over me unless I give it to them. If I said you were a shithead but you did not speak English and had not been programmed to react to those words, then those words would in fact have no effect or affect on you. Since it is your programmed response that causes your reaction you have the choice to re-program yourself to NOT react to any or all words in a way that would cause you to have a negative experience. I don't experience reality the way most people do. I used to experience it the way they do but I made a conscious effort to change the quality of my experience and now it is totally different than it was, different that what they still experience. For instance, I feel no obligation to listen or react in any way to anything anyone says to me. Others experience being forced to listen, I don't. But I have spent the time to develop skill over my mind and emotions, most people have not done that yet. It would be like if I had never developed the ability to control my bowels and bladder, I would be constantly "forced" to change my diapers. But I now have some choice as to when and where to relieve mtself. These are choices that only come with practice. Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:48 AM Be God Words are meaningless unless we give them meaning. We are the ones with all the power. We choose to react to words or we choose not to react to words. we are the God of our inner reality. IF we are awake and conscious tht we have all the power. If we are unconscious then we just react to words as we have been programmed to react, like puppets on strings react when you yank on their stings. When we are awake we realize what we want to experience is the power to appreciate, enjoy and love what life has to offer. When we are awake we realize that every moment we have a choice to experience beauty, appreciation, joy, love, peace, freedom or the opposite of each. When we are awake we realize we are the ones with all the power over the QUALITY of our life experience. We are the God of our inner reality. We are the king of kings, the lord of lords, IF we are awake to see realize this. Life is the personalification of God. This book is about developing habits that manifest this reality in our world. As God we are the ultimate authority in our world…so we get to define the idea of God…which means that we can choose to NOT define God as the ultimate authority in the universe. But then we just demonstrated we are the ultimate authority because we defined God for ourselves. God is a big idea and by identifying as a big idea, bigger than the person with body, mind & separate soul, we expand our focus and awareness or consciousness. Why not define our Self as infinite eternal love? I see only advantages to having the OPTION of seeing your Self in this way. And I reject all the fear based reason not see our Selves this way. Churches and religious organization are indoctrination centers for slave plantations which are corporations, unions and governments. God is in everything. Everything is in God. By keeping our attention focused on God/Everything we stay focused, stable and calm; we gain the power of the all, of God; we are functioning for ALL/God, which is all inclusive. In this consciousness WE become God and we are all beings. Our desire IS God’s desire, is the desire of all beings. This state of consciousness is far beyond the ancient idea
of God as separate person or being that is the creator and ruler of the
universe. The idea of separation at the
core of our reality creates conflict and dis-ease at the core of our
consciousness. This conflict and disease
manifest as conflict in society and disease in the body. Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:04 AM Perfect does not HAVE to have anything to compare, it can be a feeling. The FEELING of being whole and complete, lacking nothing, being without flaw. The old idea of perfect requires that we have some sort of idol or ideal to compare ourselves with. This was and is a tool motivate and enslave those gullible enough to believe in any idol or ideal. Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:56 PM Death I have not always been free. I have not always been God. There was a time when this world was very dark for me and I did not want to live in it. So I went off to a lonely place and I said to the powers that be should they be greater than me, “give me liberty or give me death”. I choose death. If I could not have a life that is free to enjoy and love what life offers, then I choose death. And I went at death, and I sat and I waited until death came and I died. And I found in that death what I had been looking for all alone. I found the freedom, the release. I found that there was everything in the nothing. What I did not know was that I was going to resurrect. And in that resurrection I now know that I always have the choice of death. And I now only stay here in life because of the joy and the love, and that is what I choose. I choose to enjoy and love all that life has to offer, to grow in my ability to enjoy and love all that life has to offer. I choose death everyday. Death is my option. Death is my destiny AND my desire. I choose death everyday and I die every night. And every day I resurrect each morning to enjoy and love what life is offering. And when the day comes that I am no longer able to enjoy and love every day then I will choose no longer to awaken. I am my own maker. I make myself happy and I make myself sad. Nobody makes me anything unless I want to be that way. I choose to be my maker and my creator for I choose to be the master of my reality. I could choose to be a slave like everybody else. The major paradigm of the world today is to be a slave to words. people can say words that ‘make you’ happy or ‘make you’ sad. They are your maker. Or you can take your power back from words. Friday, October 22, 2010 6:04 PM Fear and authoritarianism are the two foundations of conservatism, but mostly just fear because authoritarianism is felt as necessary for those in fear. It takes a lot of love and courage to look at and speak to the fears that are within us all. I have always done that by first confronting within myself the beliefs that are the foundation of these fears until I had overcome them and then confronting the beliefs in others that they have not examined themselves. I wonder if there is a better way to address this challenge. Saturday, October 23, 2010 9:04 AM Life is God playing with matter. Overcoming Bullying Bullying: the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something. I was sad to see anybody perpetuating the MYTH that words
hurt people. Words DON'T hurt people; it
is people's REACTIONS to words that cause harm.
We will only overcome bullying when we take responsibility for OUR
behaviors and our reactions to their words.
Saturday, October 23, 2010 6:37 PM The First Step The first step in getting free and overcoming the worlds’ ability to push our buttons and control and manipulate you with words is to intellectually accept and take responsibility for our reacts to words. You may not have the skills yet but ultimately you are responsibility for your own behaviors, including your emotions. After you have intellectually accepted this then if you want to move faster toward the goal you get into the science and the art of getting free. This science is how and the art is practice. Practice Appreciation The science and art of getting free can be bypassed just constantly
practicing appreciation with all that life offers. If you do that this and all books are no
longer needed. Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:11 AM Peace With Words Nothing anyone says can disturb my peace. Words don’t MAKE me happy and words don’t MAKE me sad. Words cannot offend me or intimidate me or anger me or flatter me. I am at peace with words. Talk about the future and I am in the present. Talk about the past and I am in the present. The past and the future cannot move mf for I am in the NOW. No Hurtful Words Other people define this word or that word as words that can
hurt them. In my world there are no hurtful words. Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:33 AM From Divine Revelation Yahoo Group, Albert I certainly hope you don't "restrain" your posts here. Although they are long, they are passionate, enlightening and well-intended. I have a suggestion for you. Any teacher, for that is what you are, does well to pay attention to how his students receive his messages. I'm reminded of the sermons I was forced to listen to as a boy. I had no idea at all what the preacher was talking about and was it was all so painfully boring that it left me with no interest at all in religion in any form. That was religion, not spirituality, as it had no spark in it at all of the true spiritual experience.
Many years later after my subsequent awakening, I was inspired to study to become a minister in The Teaching of the Inner Christ. Susan comes from a similar background. I didn't complete the course, but that's another story. In it we were required to give frequent sermons, and afterward, the instructors as well as the students gave feedback on content, style, degree of interest, etc. We were asked to begin our talks with a brief and clear statement of the intent and content, so that the listeners had some idea of what to expect. Then we were to outline the talk, to give it a "subtext", so that we built up a logical progression of ideas. Then at the end, we were to sum it all up in a closing statement that handed over the completed idea once again to the listeners. By listening to everyone's attempts to do this, we learned how to give a talk that had a clear purpose and a logical structure that kept the interest of the listeners. We could see this structure as it evolved in the sermons, and then later when I heard a TIC minister deliver a Sunday talk, I was able to see and understand how effective this approach was. I always received an interesting topic for my talks from my Higher Self, and was intrigued as to the best way to communicate and get this idea across to my listeners. I still use this structure in my emails to the D.R. group.
Another suggestion is to be aware of the grammatical clarity of your sentences, because the content can be lost in an illogical sentence structure. In my English classes in school, we had an English class each year that went over the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, subject and predicate, and so forth. I think most students got bored by these classes, I know I was, but somehow I picked it up simply from the endless repetition,
I just performed a spell check on what I've written, and believe you me, there were plenty mispellings. Just another suggestion. There's always a few that sneak by, but that's better than so many it becomes funny. Many of the misspelled words are frequently the exact opposite of what was meant.
And finally, reread and edit your post to make sure that you've said what you've intended to say. Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:48 PM Habitual emotional reactions to words are just unconscious
behaviors that we can gain control of but first becoming aware of our behavior
and taking responsibility for that behavior. Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:07 PM Shape Shifting Yesterday I imagined that I could shape shift, change my shape dynamically to become any form I could imagine. I played with this idea for quite some time just FEELING the affect this idea had on me psychologically. I realized that this feeling was the same reason that I
choose to have dual identities, for it gave me the freedom to be either a
person with all of the dramas that are associated with that being, or I can be
Spirit that has no dramas because I have always been and always will be,
without beginning or end. I can bounce
in and out of either perspective or identity at will as it suits me, hence
allowing me to enjoy and love more of what life offers. Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:51 AM Meditation is just watching. You can start by just watching your breath. You will notice that your mind wanders and you will wander with the mind, but gently bring yourself back to watching the breath. You will wander...we all do, the art is to NOT beat yourself up for your wandering, but to faithfully come back to what it was that you wanted to train your mind to focus on. The skill of focusing your mind enables you to gain stillness. Out of the stillness you gain clarity. With clarity you are able to see the truth that will set you free to enjoy and love ALL that life has to offer. This takes time and effort, patience and persistence. Smile, just having the desire to learn to still yourself
means you are a VERY long way ahead of most of humanity. Be grateful for that.
Be VERY grateful for that. Gratitude itself will make everything go much
quicker and easier. Wednesday, November 03, 2010 6:13 PM Conversation with Frances Oliver about last night. Appreciate my willingness to be fully present to listen to others. The meditation helped her to accept what I was saying. Sunday, November 07, 2010 8:24 AM WE CAN OVERCOME our fear of ourselves and our reactions to words. WE CAN OVERCOME our fear of our reactions to judgment and criticism. I woke up this morning feeling that I want to engage the
world with a message of liberation that WE CAN OVERCOME. Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:02 PM Resist Not Evil It is sad to see people come out in their public
announcements to say they have some serious disease like cancer and then
proclaim they will fight this disease.
For I always know that they are as good as dead. Monday, November 15, 2010 2:03 PM When someone says 'abuse' I am assuming they mean emotional
abuse, not physical abuse. Emotional abuse and judgment are the same
thing, both require YOU to REACT to what is said to you in order for the abuse
or judgment to effect you. The honest person accepts responsibility for
their own behaviors and does not blame another for them. If someone says
something to you that is harsh or judgmental and YOU REACT to those words in a
way that causes you hurt or harm, then it is YOUR responsibility AND your power
to do something about it (stop reacting). Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:45 PM Max (on StudyCircle) I agree with you that words can be used as "weapons of
mass destruction." Hence, this is
why I want to confront the archaic belief that words SHOULD BE ABLE to be
weapons of mass destruction. So if we point out to people that words can only
harm them IF they react to them then the power of words to hurt people gets
diminished, until someday when words can no longer be used as weapons of mass
destruction. Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:47 AM Emotional Abuse Getting free from emotional abuse takes to distinct choices, one is to be absolutely honest with yourself. The other is to willfully work towards stopping the actions that cause the abuse. First, I want to define what I mean by emotional abuse. When a person feels that they are experiencing emotional abuse then they are being emotionally abused. This is very simple and does not need any clarification, the person themselves defines if they are being abused and that is that. The hard part comes in seeing the SOURCE of that abuse. If one researches emotional abuse they will read that there are many different definitions of emotional abuse and ways a person can be emotionally abused. Rarely will anyone point out the one common point that all emotional abuse has, the person who is experiencing the abuse. Always, the emotionally abused person does not stand up for themselves, even to themselves. The emotionally abused person does not know how to take care of themselves emotionally. What are the characteristics of an abuser? An abuser is one who blames others for what they themselves are doing to themselves. Blame is a big characteristic. Another way of saying this is they see themselves as victims. Emotional abusers see themselves as victims, they have to have somebody to blame for their suffering. To take responsibility for their own behavior would mean they would have to deal with the guilt, and that is just too much of a burden to handle. But guilt is just another form of emotional abuse they inflict on themselves. Are you safe from yourself?
Have you been taught or conditioned to abuse yourself so that others can
use that to gain power over you? Do you
believe you are trapped in a cycle of abuse without a way for YOU to do
something to get out of it? Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:49 PM Julie,
Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:21 PM Banned Books All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway For Whom the Bells Toll, Hemingway Animal Farm, Orwell Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut Ulysses, Joyce The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway Tropic of Cancer, Miller Rabbit, Run, Updike Jaws, Benchley The Prince of Tides, Conroy Beloved, Morrison On the Origin of Species, Darwin Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolklen Last Temptation of Christ, Kazantzakis Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne As I lLay Dying, Faulkner Brave New World, Huxley Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee James and the Giant Peach, Dahl Catch 22, Heller A Clockwork Orange, Burgess One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey Cujo, King The Color Purple, Walker, Ordinary People, Guest A Thousand Acres, Smiley Friday, December 10, 2010 10:18 AM Honesty Of course, honesty starts with being honest with ourselves. We want to believe this or that because our emotions demand it, but that is just a lie we are telling ourselves to temporarily appease those emotions. The truth is what sets us free to enjoy and love all that life has to offer. If we cannot love all that life has to offer then someplace we are not being honest with ourelves. As one seeks this truth they sooner or later discover that they can’t “know” anything of the past or future, and that best they can only “know” the present that is here and now. Knowing the present that is here and now is called Gnosticism. Admitting that we can’t know the past or future and becoming comfortable with aht is called mysticism. It is really had to be honest even with ourselves when the
whole world around us is being dishonest with itself and encouraging us to be
dishonest with ourelves. It is also hard
because nobody really want to ALWAYS be totally honest with themselves, for the
drama of the illusion I so much fun and brings so much vitality to the life
experience. Friday, December 31, 2010 8:24 PM I have been pondering and talking with you people here about
how to go about radically changing the world to what, I think everyone here
would agree, would be a healthier world, a world where many more people were
aware of the nonduality reality that most of us live with everyday. Since our discussions here I have come to realize that we already have many stories going that people believe in. The reality is that we all live by these stories; our minds require stories so we create or acquire stories to give ourselves perspective on our place in the universe. I realized that what other people have done is to take already existing stories and to modify them or ‘tweak’ them just a little in this or that way to create a whole new story for people. For instance, a very well know case of this came to mind yesterday, which is the case of Jesus using the story or myth of the Jewish Messiah as a starting spot for the story he wanted people to consider. The Jewish Messiah was supposed to be a son of David who would come and slay all the enemies of the children of Israel and again be a great king over a powerful and free nation. And this is what most Jews were looking for in their Messiah, which is probably why the Jewish people mostly disregarded Jesus as the messiah. But not everyone dismissed Jesus and some took him to be a messiah of some sort. It was these few who went on to create the story/myth of Christ and they plugged Jesus into that story/myth. Most of the people of the world know the story of Jesus, although not everyone believes the story/myth of Christ. If you ask people about Jesus almost everyone can tell you some sort of story about him. What I would propose to radically change the world would be to take this story of Jesus and ‘tweak’ it a little, or tell it from a different angle that would give the story of Jesus a whole new meaning, a meaning that would radically change the world’s perspective. For one, I see Jesus as a nondualist and a spiritual anarchist. I think the “facts” as written in the New Testament can be looked at and argued effectively to back up this claim. Second, I see the reason that Christ-anti, Christianity came about was because Saul of Taurus was sent to turn people AWAY from Jesus’ way, truth and life and to bring them back to “sound doctrine” by which they can be controlled and manipulated or enslaved. Again, I think a very powerful argument can be made for this. Approximately 2.2 billion people on this planet identify as Christians, but many of those people are disillusioned by the organized religion known as Christianity yet they all feel some kinship or attraction to the story of Jesus. By creating a new angle on the story of Jesus that brings him off the pedestal that Paul and the Christians have put him on, people can again be inspired by this story to seek the kingdom of heaven that he talked about and that most of us in the nonduality world live in. Of course, this would be controversial and divisive. Bring this division creates controversy and that raises the level of debate which is what will start people seeking and will motivate many toward self inquire. So this is good for humanity. Myth can be a very powerful way to change the minds of people. Changing the myth of Jesus from a savior to and awakened and loving person who was pointing the way can be a very powerful way to radically change the world. So I am interested in hearing what people think about this idea. All comments and criticisms are appreciated. |